18th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (2012)

Best Picture

	1. Lincoln
	2. Argo
	3. Zero Dark Thirty
	4. Life of Pi
	5. Les Misérables
	6. Moonrise Kingdom
	7. Silver Linings Playbook
	8. Skyfall
	9. The Master
	10. Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Director

	1. Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
	2. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
	3. Ben Affleck - Argo
	4. Ang Lee - Life of Pi
	5. Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom

Best Actor

	1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
	2. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master as Freddie Quell
	3. John Hawkes - The Sessions as Mark O'Brien
	4. Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
	5. Denzel Washington - Flight as William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.

Best Actress

	1. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty as Maya
	2. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
	3. Helen Mirren - Hitchcock as Alma Reville
	4. 4Emmanuelle Riva - Amour as Anne Laurent
	5. Naomi Watts - The Impossible as Maria Bennett (TIE)
	5. Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy (TIE)

Best Supporting Actor

	1. Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens
	2. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master as Lancaster Dodd
	3. Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz
	4. Alan Arkin - Argo as Lester Siegel
	5. Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr

Best Supporting Actress

	1. Sally Field - Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
	2. Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables as Fantine
	3. Amy Adams - The Master as Peggy Dodd
	4. Helen Hunt - The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene
	5. Ann Dowd - Compliance as Sandra

Best Screenplay

	1. Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
	2. Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

Best Cinematography

	1. Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi
	2. Roger Deakins - Skyfall

Best Musical Score

John Williams - Lincoln

Best Foreign Language Film

	1. Amour • Austria
	2. A Royal Affair • Denmark
	3. The Intouchables • France
	4. Holy Motors • France
	5. The Kid with a Bike • Belgium

Best Documentary Film

	1. Searching for Sugar Man
	2. Bully
	3. How to Survive a Plague
	4. West of Memphis
	5. The Invisible War

Best Animated Film

	1. ParaNorman
	2. Frankenweenie
	3. The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Individual awards (Russell Smith Award)

Beasts of the Southern Wild, for "best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film"